Posts Tagged ‘arxiv’

At this time of the year I usually screen the papers I have printed/downloaded/read during the year, as an exercise to recall what has been discovered this year. I thought that it would be a good idea to create a list of my favourite 2013 papers and post it in this blog. Obviously, this is a very personal list, and the selection is completely biased. Also, the list is not about the best discoveries or the most famous findings, so don’t expect microbrains or Lenski’s experiments. Hope you find this list, at least, informative.

“Why Transcription Factor Binding Sites Are Ten Nucleotides Long” by Alexander Stewart, Sridhar Hannenhalli and Joshua Plotkin. It develops a population genetics model which predicts the observed length distribution of regulatory motifs. May or may not be realistic, you may like it or not, but the paper is worth reading.